Biography
Zak Zarafshan is a British-Iranian playwright and screenwriter from the East Midlands. He came to writing for the stage through a course at Soho Theatre in London; he was a member of the Soho Theatre Writers Lab and the Tamasha Playwrights Group and has also worked as a script editor on television drama since 2019. As one of five writers on Theatre503's 503Five residency programme (2019/20), he developed his debut play The Boys Are Kissing, a comedy that premiered there in January 2023 and was published by Methuen Drama the same year. For the play he was nominated for Best Writer at The Stage Debut Awards 2023 and was a finalist for Most Promising New Playwright at the Off West End Theatre Awards 2024. In 2024/25 he took part in the BBC Writers Pilot Scheme.
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